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Health Champions event celebrates young people with SEND

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SEND Youth header 900x600 - Health Champions event celebrates young people with SEND The sports hall at YMCA Walthamstow was the venue for a fantastic community event to celebrate young people with SEND from Waltham Forest Collage as Health Champions. The event was organized by the Youth Team at YMCA Walthamstow, with funding from the Waltham Forest Council Health Inequalities Fund.  The event started with a superhero warmup...

Generation Cut: Youth Services

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Since 2010, YMCA St Paul’s Group has seen an average of a 53% cut in spending by local authorities in London and Slough on youth services. This includes one Borough where the spending per head on services for young people has dropped to £0. This 53% cut is just one of the shocking headlines from…

Swing & sway your blues away at YMCA White House

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YMCA White House in Hampton is delighted to be home to Andrew Cuerden’s Tuesday evening dance classes from February 2023. With a busy timetable of Ballroom & Latin dance classes taught by former BBC Strictly Come Dancing Professional Andrew Cuerden, there really is something for everyone. Why not try one of the classes offered, for solos,…

Christmas Sprouts!

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Now what is it about sprouts!? Each year at Christmas they get a bad press – but each year thousands of sprouts are eaten! People say they don’t like them, they’re too soggy, they haven’t been cooked properly, they’re boring – but maybe that’s precisely it. Sprouts can be boring and over-cooked, just like the…

Metro Bank have been digging deep

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We were delighted to host a team of fantastic volunteers from Metro Bank, Wimbledon, at YMCA Hawker earlier this month. The team of volunteers got their hands dirty tidying up our community garden areas and even brought along their own tools to help with the expense of the project. Metro Bank contacted YMCA St Paul’s…

Celebrating success at Youth Matters Awards 2022

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YMCA St Paul’s Group and Khalsa Karate celebrate success at Youth Matters Awards 2022   The inspirational Khalsa Karate took home the top title of Health & Wellbeing Project of the Year at the highly anticipated YMCA Youth Matters Awards on Friday 18th November 2022. Khalsa Karate, which has been running at YMCA Hawker since…

YMCA St Paul’s Group Celebrates Wimbledon Development Milestone

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This week, Tuesday 15 November, YMCA St Paul’s Group, Thornsett and Neilcott Construction marked a major milestone in the redevelopment of the YMCA Wimbledon – a new state-of-the-art building facing on to The Broadway, Wimbledon. This ceremony marked the ‘topping out’ of the new YMCA Wimbledon building, an exciting development that, when complete, will also…

YMCA St Paul’s Group Announces New Chair

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Helen Brewer announced as the new Chair of the Board of Trustees, succeeding Andy Palmer   Today, YMCA St Paul’s Group is excited to announce that Helen Brewer has been appointed as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees. Helen Brewer has been a dedicated and passionate Trustee of the YMCA since 2016 and…

True Colours – A YMCA Walthamstow Youth Project

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True Colours is an Arts and wellbeing programme, with youth-led discussions, to help teens feel supported with their mental health. Taking place at YMCA Walthamstow, this programme welcomes female identifying and LGBTQ+ teens aged 10-16. The programme aims to give young people a safe space to express themselves through movement, art and creative writing, where they can feel…

Fun for the family at YMCA South Ealing

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SE family fun3 900x600 - Fun for the family at YMCA South Ealing The Children and Families team hosted a fantastic afternoon of family fun on Saturday 15 October at YMCA South Ealing. The event attracted large numbers of local families, who came to enjoy the activities and refreshments on offer throughout the YMCA South Ealing activity studio and newly reopened café.  The activity studio was transformed into...